Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drom, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drom
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins) Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.76924, -7.90073
- SMR number
- TN034-023001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle rise of ground in undulating countryside with a nearby ringwork (TN034-022) to the W. According to local tradition this was the site of the Synod of Ráith Bressail in 1111 (ITA 1942). Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 284). The poorly preserved remains of a nave and chancel church (TN034-023) with a transept off the S wall of the nave. The church (TN034-023) is located in the S quadrant of a large rectangular shaped graveyard which contains 18th and 19th century memorials
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.